I am certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affiars whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel- F. Nightingale

Sunday, December 2, 2007

That time of year

I have never been a huge fan of Christmas. I'm not a Scrooge but I guess my onesore thought when it comes to the whole holidays is the craziness that one can getcaught up in. You know traffic lines, beeping horns, crazed shoppers and longcheck out lines. We haven't been married to long so are still working throughwhat type of traditions our family (Andy and Erica Jones) will have. That hascreated some waves, but I'm happy to say that our resolving of the issuesdon't tinge the whole weekend with sourness like before. We are even able to add some humor to it.For example, my husband and I were trying to figure out how all theextended family that came into town for Thanksgiving were going to see us(for boundary people, I'm sure your thinking...not your responsibility ;).

As our voices rose toward each other, my husband suddenly breaks out in songright on tune...."it's the most wonderful time of the year!" Ahh yes. Well it worked out.

I did get to hold my new nephew last week, (my brother's baby). Amazinghow babies grow.

My sister is touring the areas in South New Zealand where they filmed Lord of Rings.That is so cool! She borrowed my sleeping bag, so that will be my souvenir whenI get it back in a few weeks. Maybe I'll hang it on the wall as I think that will bethe closest I ever get to New Zealand

2 comments:

lil people are the best Christmas presents, your nephew being the lil person and Morgan now at fun interactive :) stage for Christmas, should make it a fun year. you really do start to see why Christmas becomes for the kids as they get older. see it through their eyes. that's what i am shooting for this year.